Starbuck
11-12-2011, 07:24 PM
I'm not normally a vindictive or petty person. Really. I try to give everyone a little benefit of doubt and space of their own.
But it wasn't very long ago that I made some pretty snide remarks about the Rooskies rockets blowing up and conjecturing what it would be like the first time they light one of our own astronauts. I thought it was a pretty safe remark. Not too many Rooskies reside here.
I was right about the number of Rooskies signed up at Conservative Forum, but wrong about it being a safe remark. I was attacked by....well, someone...and set straight about who had the best space program. Wasn't the U.S. I was informed. Rooskies started it all, and still lead, he said.
He's wrong.
The Rooskies would have trouble putting the great great great grandson of Mutnick up these days. They're in deep poo-poo. But they have a solution.
Their going to put the higher-ups in jail. That oughta work.
Scientists grew excited last week as Russia's planned its first interplanetary mission in 15 years. By now, the ambitious mission should be powering through space, toward the Martian moon Phobos.
Instead, Russia's space agency spent Friday discussing uncontrolled reentry scenarios.
Authorities may be looking for someone to blame after a lengthy string of mission failures. According to an Interfax bulletin, an anonymous source indicated that this may force reform in the Russian space agency, Roscosmos, and "a number of positions of responsible persons" could face jail time.
As if that news weren't bad enough, this could be an uncontrolled toxic reentry scenario.
Phobos-Grunt -- correctly written "Fobos-Grunt," meaning "Phobos-Soil" or "Phobos-Ground" -- is fully laden with unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine and nitrogen tetroxide; that's ten tons of fuel and oxidizer. The probe itself weighs in at only three tons.
ANALYSIS: Time Running Short for Stranded Mars Probe
The majority of the fuel will likely vaporize during reentry, but everyone will be hoping for a splash-down in an ocean (which covers two-thirds of Earth, fortunately), as the wreckage will still be hazardous. There's also a small quantity of radioactive cobalt-57 in one of the science missions housed in the probe -- a fact that will most likely cause a media frenzy.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/11/11/toxic-russian-mars-probe-heading-back-to-earth/?test=latestnews#ixzz1dXJRh0yG
But it wasn't very long ago that I made some pretty snide remarks about the Rooskies rockets blowing up and conjecturing what it would be like the first time they light one of our own astronauts. I thought it was a pretty safe remark. Not too many Rooskies reside here.
I was right about the number of Rooskies signed up at Conservative Forum, but wrong about it being a safe remark. I was attacked by....well, someone...and set straight about who had the best space program. Wasn't the U.S. I was informed. Rooskies started it all, and still lead, he said.
He's wrong.
The Rooskies would have trouble putting the great great great grandson of Mutnick up these days. They're in deep poo-poo. But they have a solution.
Their going to put the higher-ups in jail. That oughta work.
Scientists grew excited last week as Russia's planned its first interplanetary mission in 15 years. By now, the ambitious mission should be powering through space, toward the Martian moon Phobos.
Instead, Russia's space agency spent Friday discussing uncontrolled reentry scenarios.
Authorities may be looking for someone to blame after a lengthy string of mission failures. According to an Interfax bulletin, an anonymous source indicated that this may force reform in the Russian space agency, Roscosmos, and "a number of positions of responsible persons" could face jail time.
As if that news weren't bad enough, this could be an uncontrolled toxic reentry scenario.
Phobos-Grunt -- correctly written "Fobos-Grunt," meaning "Phobos-Soil" or "Phobos-Ground" -- is fully laden with unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine and nitrogen tetroxide; that's ten tons of fuel and oxidizer. The probe itself weighs in at only three tons.
ANALYSIS: Time Running Short for Stranded Mars Probe
The majority of the fuel will likely vaporize during reentry, but everyone will be hoping for a splash-down in an ocean (which covers two-thirds of Earth, fortunately), as the wreckage will still be hazardous. There's also a small quantity of radioactive cobalt-57 in one of the science missions housed in the probe -- a fact that will most likely cause a media frenzy.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/11/11/toxic-russian-mars-probe-heading-back-to-earth/?test=latestnews#ixzz1dXJRh0yG